Latest language perversions à la "could care less" or figurative-literal

[R. Richard]

You want to discuss a language change? Okay, how about 'Press 2 for English.'

 

[MillieDynamite]

Press one for Spanglish.

You want to discuss a language change? Okay, how about 'Press 2 for English.'

 

[MillieDynamite]

I know a little German, "Leck meine Muschi." comes in very handy with German Lesbians visiting Oklahoma.

 

[Abbafan]

"Cool" has been around a lot longer than that! Its current slang meaning is at least a century old, but it was morphing into that form well back in the mid-19th century.

Abraham Lincoln, in his Cooper Union speech of 1860, said (emphasis mine):

But you will not abide the election of a Republican president! In that supposed event, You say, you will destroy the Union; and then, you say, the great crime of having destroyed it will be upon us! That is cool. A highwayman holds a pistol to my ear, and mutters through his teeth, "Stand and deliver, or I shall kill you, and then you will be a murderer!"​

Interesting. Dude is another one that's been around a long time that we think of as being more recent. People were using it in the old days to refer to a city slicker I believe.

 

[Abbafan]

Interesting. I've never seen that extension before, and I doubt many Americans would have, either

I've never heard that in my 49 years on this planet in the midwest. Maybe it's one of those regional sayings? It doesn't make a lot of sense to me. It would be difficult to care less?

 

[ElectricBlue]

I've never heard that in my 49 years on this planet in the midwest. Maybe it's one of those regional sayings? It doesn't make a lot of sense to me. It would be difficult to care less?

It does make sense in a way, but as noted up above by @Kumquatqueen, I suspect it's an attempt to explain an American foolishness, post facto. But then, KQQ ain't American, either, so it might be a trans-Atlantic generosity .

 

[MillieDynamite]

The last place I looked. (Because who the fuck keeps looking for something they've found?)

 

[Kumquatqueen]

It does make sense in a way, but as noted up above by @Kumquatqueen, I suspect it's an attempt to explain an American foolishness, post facto. But then, KQQ ain't American, either, so it might be a trans-Atlantic generosity .

I am American, actually. Just never lived there for more than a few months at a time.

Means I'm allowed to take the piss out of the septics...

 

[ElectricBlue]

I am American, actually. Just never lived there for more than a few months at a time.

Means I'm allowed to take the piss out of the septics...

That's useful to know. Mockery from a distance, huh?